"Must Know" Literary Terms for Language Arts


  • alliteration
  • assonance
  • consonance
  • metaphor
  • personification
  • simile
  • tone
  • onomatopoeia
  • rhyme
  • repetition
  • irony
  • soliloquy
  • tone
  • monologue
  • imagery
  • hyperbole
  • aphorism
  • connotation
  • anecdote
  • dialogue
  • allusion
  • denouement
  • symbolism